An idea for improving the “thumbs” feature

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@kewpie said
The topic of this thread is thumbs. I'd like to propose a simple program change (venda's suggestion above) which I believe would solve the problem once and for all.

Russ, could we please have an option to turn off the visibility of thumbs added to our preference options?

Thumb-haters could forget about them altogether, thumb-lovers wouldn't get so crabby whenever the topic comes up. Win-win.

Out-of-sight, out-of-mind. I like it.

Leave the feature as-is, yet give the butthurt a tool to remove their distress.

Make it so.

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11 Feb 23 17:13

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@suzianne said
So you can commit a pogrom

Don't use words whose real meaning you cannot begin to understand, middle-class white USA Evangelical girl.

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@suzianne said
So you can commit a pogrom of abuse towards them, as you are wont to do against those who disagree with you publicly?

If someone "commits a pogrom of abuse" then they'll get a forum ban.

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@suzianne said
Limiting one's freedom to disagree doesn't make the signals of disagreement that do get through any more "valuable". It just looks like less people disagree, which is what they want.

Don't condone the abuse that causes most of the red thumbs. They will misrepresent anything in their quest to limit the freedom of those who disagree with them.

No one is suggesting limiting "one's freedom to disagree". People can disagree all they want. That's true now and it would be still true if thumbs were given increased value, made not anonymous, or even if the feature were removed altogether. One could still disagree with what another poster posted as much as one wanted.

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@suzianne said
"I don't see how limiting someone's freedom to disagree limits their freedom to disagree."

FMF-translate module no. 145.

Nope. What I said was: I don't see how anyone's "freedom to disagree" is affected by limiting the number of red and green thumbs they can give over a period of time.

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@kewpie said
The topic of this thread is thumbs. I'd like to propose a simple program change (venda's suggestion above) which I believe would solve the problem once and for all.

Russ, could we please have an option to turn off the visibility of thumbs added to our preference options?

Thumb-haters could forget about them altogether, thumb-lovers wouldn't get so crabby whenever the topic comes up. Win-win.

Agreed: add an option to switch off visibility. But keep them anonymous, please. Then we can have peace and quiet on the issue, forever.